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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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‘Ocean’ and ‘Tracks on the Ocean’ review
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Albert Einstein: The Greatest Scientist of the 20th Century
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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How to Revive Wassailing
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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The Life of Aristotle
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
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Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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6 of History’s Biggest Traitors
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Dreams of Space -...
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Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Dreams of Space -...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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Dreams of Space -...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Summary of changes for April
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
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Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
a year ago
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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Brushing for Britain
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
10 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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Belief in the Ancient World
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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Open Culture
The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929)
The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which...
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The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which “skeletons hoof and frolic,” the peak of whose hilarity “is reached when one skeleton plays the spine of another in xylophone fashion, using a pair of thigh bones as hammers.” The...
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How to Give a Speech
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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The third framing
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4 months ago
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
over a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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a year ago
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
9 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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African History...
The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
5 days ago
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.